US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 15 for "Context-dependent digital action-assistance tool" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,787, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Context-dependent digital action-assistance tool" was invented by Ajoy Nandi (Redmond, Wash.) and Jason T Creighton (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented technique is described herein for facilitating a user's repeated execution of the same computer-implemented actions. The technique performs this task by determining patterns in the manner in which the user repeats requests associated with certain computer-implemented actions. For example, the technique determines context-dependent patterns in the manner in w...